what condition triggers new general / man of hour

[rios]

what triggers the man of the hour events? besides the army had to have no general? Because the generals produced this way usually have good traits like dauntless...

[Turpitudo]

I get most of my man of the hour generals by using my captain's unit to kill as many enemies as possible. So most preferiably heavy cavalry or archers would do the job. Riding or shooting down broken troops does not help. So the best way to get them is to search for 1-3 unit rebels and have your general to the most of the fighting. I never got a man of the hour event by just leading his army to victory several times without doint much fighting by himself.

[Bob the Insane]

Well you need to be a littel short of general's in the first place...

As per RTW you will dynamically get more get more Man of the Hour and adoptions if you have substantually more settlements than generals...

I think you need a Heroic victory as well...

[Sheogorath]

With some factions it seems like if you capture a lot of guys and then release them the screen comes up.

[chunkynut]

Heroic Victory seemed to be the key in the first part of my campaign but later I've had less offers so it must be to do with using the generals unit as well, maybe an increase in experience for that unit helps?

[Basileus]

Winning Heroic Victorys are not the only thing it seems, i won 3 battles both where Heroic but hes still a captain the poor guy. I have 4 generals and 13 provinces so its not that i have enough either. Btw the 2 battles i was sieged so i guess for those 2 it could that it does not work with sigies.

[rios]

Apparently adoption characters aren't as good as the man of the hour guys, at least in my cases. It would appear the adoptions were triggered by deeds of existing generals. On the other hand, I've never had man of the hour after a battle faught with generals.

[CaptainSolo]

I got one when four units of mailed knights were ambushed by one of my faction heirs who had deserted and became a rebel.Luckily for me as it happens as he was a complete fruitcake.
His loyalty and stats were really poor when i got the offer to adopt him so i declined.

[Somebody Else]

I've got 50+ provinces, and one family member. I get an adoption notice every turn, a marriage offer for my princess every turn, and every captain led victory leads to a 'man-of-the-hour' offer (Except settlement assaults/defences).

[KARTLOS]

you seem to get one when you win a battle without a general and the odds werernt too great in your favour. i find using city garrisons to clear up wandering rebels and autoresolving produces a man of the hour EVERY single time -this is on h/h

[BigTex]

To get a man of the hour you need at the minimum a Heroic Victory. Next you also need the generals unit to get around 100-200 kills. Also a trigger in RTW was the captain himself getting at a minimum of 10 kills. Part of the reason why it's hard to get men of the hours when their not mounted.

If you know how to earn the "brave" line of traits, rinse and repeat that on a captian.

[Shahed]

Anyone have a definitive answer to this ?

[Lusted]

Yes, if you have very few generals compared to number of settlements, and captain wins a battle with suffeirng few casualties, the event will be triggered.

[Shahed]

Thanks. Do you know what the ratio is ?

[Rozanov]

Playing un modded (1.1 patch) campaign I had a Heroic Victory - with a general (ie bod with bodyguard not just a captain) in charge who was awarded the "Man of the Hour" and then he was offered for adoption into the Royal Family as a son.

So you can get "Man of the Hour" with a general, but not as a general rule.

[_Tristan_]

I've witnessed a captain awarded the MOTH after a "Clear Victory", don't know what he did particularly ... from what i remember it was an archer-unit captain...

At that time I was slightly low on the general/sttelement count but not much...so ?

[Dracula(Romanian Vlad Tepes)]

There is an engine wich triggers this.

[Indy1958]

Gents:

Good afternoon from Canada!!! I hope this finds you and yours well. As for me, Icould complain...yadda, yadda, yadda.

Last night, I was playing as the Byzantine Empire, and I found a Rebel army breathing down my neck. I waited a couple of turns to get some more men and when I was ready, I threw out the Rebel trash. This earned my governor a "Man of the Hour" document, plus an invite to be adopted into my Royal Family.

Needless to say, he's now a member of my Royal Family.

Live long and prosper, take care and thank you kindly!!!

Sincerely yours always,

Indy.

[Gaius Terentius Varro]

I think the ratio is around 1.5 (provinces:family members) and you don't need a heroic victory at all

[Von Nanega]

Apparently adoption characters aren't as good as the man of the hour guys, at least in my cases. It would appear the adoptions were triggered by deeds of existing generals. On the other hand, I've never had man of the hour after a battle faught with generals.

I did once. The general was killed early on in the battle. I then won the fight. (Not Heroically, but just regular) Got a Man of the Hour out of it. He was better than the general he replaced.

[gardibolt]

I just got one last night where the captain leading the army was killed, but I got a MOTH anyway---and he was a really good one, one of the best characters I've picked up in a long time.

[Slicendice]

It's based on need and not on victory type. I've gotten MoH from a battle I lost! I've also gotten MoH when using a General that was not a family member.